As version 4.x of the KDE libraries (kdelibs) has been under a feature freeze since 4.7 due to the development of KDE Frameworks 5, we'd like to backport interesting features to be released within Fedora 18.

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As main components of 4.9 release are already devel-frozen due to development of version 5, we'd like to backport interesting features to be released within Fedora 18.

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There's a plan to break the CD size limit and release a 800 MiB image (due to the [[Features/MiniDebugInfo]] Feature).

* working sound in Phonon, esp. with regards to the PA and GStreamer integration

* working sound in Phonon, esp. with regards to the PA and GStreamer integration

* "root" modules in System Settings (due to pk1)

* "root" modules in System Settings (due to pk1)

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* Device Notifier (due to new udisks2 Solid backend)

We are working on test plan for KDE QA.

We are working on test plan for KDE QA.

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== Documentation ==

== Documentation ==

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The Fedora KDE Desktop User Guide is very important part of this feature for users. It guides users how-to use the new KDE 4 Desktop and it's targeted to both former KDE 3.5 user and first time KDE 4 users.

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The Fedora KDE Desktop User Guide is very important part of this feature for users. It guides users how-to use the latest KDE Plasma Desktop and it's targeted to both former KDE 3.5 user and first time KDE 4 users.

As version 4.x of the KDE libraries (kdelibs) has been under a feature freeze since 4.7 due to the development of KDE Frameworks 5, we'd like to backport interesting features to be released within Fedora 18.

There's a plan to break the CD size limit and release a 800 MiB image (due to the Features/MiniDebugInfo Feature).

Requires rebasing to the latest upstream version and preparing distribution specific patches. All new required packages are already included in distribution. But as upstream changed
release schema and now provides split tarballs for some previously monolithic modules, we are going to follow this decision in Fedora too as we want to stick as close as possible
to upstream. This involves changes in packaging, new reviews and small overload for packaging system.

Given how the KDE Plasma Workspaces 4.9 and Fedora 18 schedules align, there should be plenty of buffer time between the KDE Plasma Workspaces 4.9 and Fedora 18 releases. We are already working on importing and polishing beta version of KDE. In case of problems with upstream release, we can revert to older release or we can omit individual problematic modules of this feature. KDE Plasma Workspaces 4.9 could later be shipped as an update.

The Fedora KDE Desktop User Guide is very important part of this feature for users. It guides users how-to use the latest KDE Plasma Desktop and it's targeted to both former KDE 3.5 user and first time KDE 4 users.